Police confiscate bar security tape showing Cutts

Friday

Jun 22, 2007 at 12:01 AMJun 22, 2007 at 9:02 PM

Investigators seized surveillance tape from a sports bar that Bobby Cutts visited June 13, the last night that anyone is known to have spoken with his girlfriend, Jessie Marie Davis, who is nine months pregnant.

Todd Porter

Investigators seized surveillance tape from a sports bar that Bobby Cutts visited June 13, the last night that anyone is known to have spoken with his girlfriend, Jessie Marie Davis, who is nine months pregnant.
Cutts, a Canton police officer who was off duty that day, came into Champs, a bar and restaurant on 30th St. NE, around 9:30 p.m. and didn’t leave until 12:30 a.m., according to bar owner John Shaheen.
“The FBI took the surveillance tape. Unfortunately the time of the tape isn’t correct, but we were able to figure out how much it was off,” Shaheen said. “He was there with a (male) friend of his. His friend got there first, and Bobby Cutts arrived about 15 minutes after that.”
The tape, Shaheen said, shows Cutts drinking beer. It also shows the men meeting two women.
“About halfway through their time here, they (Cutts and the male friend) went out to the patio ... and the girls followed them,” Shaheen said.
Shaheen said he left Champs before Cutts did because the bar wasn’t particularly busy that night. Shaheen also said he wasn’t sure if Cutts left alone or with his male friend or either of the two women.
“Who’s to say what happened after he left here? For all I know, he could’ve went to another bar after he left here. He still had two more hours (until bars close),” Shaheen said.
Nothing seemed unusual about Cutts’ demeanor during his three hours at Champs. He arrived after he played in a Canton recreational softball game for a team called Mr. C.
“He was like anyone else in there,” Shaheen said. “There wasn’t anything out of the ordinary at all.”
“I’ve seen him in there many times. He’s brought (Jessie Davis) in before. She drank cranberry juice because she was pregnant.”
Cutts normally works four 10-hour days on the midnight shift. Preliminary city payroll records and Police Chief Dean McKimm show June 13 was one of his normal days off.
He had worked from 10 p.m. June 12 through to 8 a.m. June 13, according to city records, before returning to work at 10 p.m. June 14 and finishing the shift at 8 a.m. on Friday the 15th.
Cutts has been on paid leave since then.
Staff writer Ed Balint contributed to this report.